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...York via Newfoundland or Labrador to Eire-London-Berlin-Prague-Vienna-Istanbul-Cairo...
...sooty), ice, pea-soup (moderately smoky, yellowish, once thought peculiar to London)-most are not troublesome to flyers because they are shallow or ephemeral. But there is great danger in advection fogs, produced by the drifting of warm air over cold land or water or snow banks (common off Labrador): they are deep-sometimes thousands of feet-and treacherous...
...September 1942, the St. Roch, looking little the worse for wear, came down the coast past Labrador to Newfoundland. The crew had gained weight, and no man, except the dead Chartrand, had been ill of so much as a cold...
...Harvests. Sometimes the mice cycles lead to cycles of disaster throughout nature. "Northward, beyond the line where crops will flourish," says Elton, "the mice themselves become a crop, harvested in turn by fox and trapper and trader." From the reports of the Hudson's Bay Company and of Labrador missionaries Elton has found that in the last century fox catches fluctuated in four-year cycles, one year after the cycles of voles in Labrador and lemmings in Ungava (subArctic Quebec...
...this month over 30 heavily laden planes rumbled off rough, badly lighted fields in Labrador, winged across 800 miles of stormy water to secret airfields in Greenland. All records later flopped when 60 round trips were made in three days...